She may be playing the Wicked Queen in Snow White, but Patsy Kensit tells Matthew Jenkin why there are no poisoned apples on her tree.

THANKS to a string of messy rock star marriages and break-ups, Patsy Kensit has had her fair share of dirty laundry aired in public.

Googling her, it was therefore a surprise to find the first search to pop up was a website devoted to worshipping her feet.

“How odd. I have no idea what that’s about. I would never Google myself,” says a surprisingly self conscious Kensit.

The 43-year-old tells me she is equally wary of reading the papers.

After the furore surrounding her marriage to Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr and fiery romance with Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher, who can blame her?

But those turbulent days are ancient history she tells me in the rehearsal room at The Churchill Theatre in Bromley.

The Holby City and Emmerdale star is playing the Wicked Queen in the High Street venue’s pantomime Snow White and couldn’t be happier.

“I have a really nice, quiet life now,” the mum-of-two beams.

“I’m very happy getting older, growing wiser and life is great.

"15 years ago I wouldn’t have been able to go out with my hair scraped back in a bun with dodgy trainers on and get on with my day. I just feel so free, it’s brilliant."

An avid reader of books and homely, Kensit couldn’t be further from the jealous and maniacal fairytale queen.

However, she’s relishing the chance to be evil.

She said: “The great thing about being an actor is you get to play different roles.

“The queen is so vile and all of her traits are the ugliness you can find in a human being.

“It’s all the things I despise, but I wouldn’t take on a role if I didn’t find it interesting.”

A brief skim of her acting CV reveals she’s telling the truth and if there’s one thing she would love to do more of, she says, it’s comedy.

Having collaborated with surreal funnyman Leigh Francis on Bo’ Selecta! and spin-off A Bear’s Tail, Kensit has proved she has a talent for it.

She's since become good friends with the comedian and was even offered a part in a big screen outing for his latest hit character Keith Lemon. Unfortunately, panto clashed with filming.

"He’s actually a really soft spoken lad from Leeds and so chilled," she reveals.

"He’s like Peter Sellers, a brilliant actor and deeply, deeply funny.

"He inhabits these people, these characters, and rarely appears in public as himself."

Acting aside, her stint competing on last year’s Strictly Come Dancing was, admittedly, less impressive.

And while she says it was character building, don’t expect too much fancy footwork from her in panto.

She said: “There’s a little bit of movement. It’s really more me being placed around the stage.

“There is no paso doble I’m afraid.”

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs opens at The Churchill in Bromley on Friday and runs until January 8. To book tickets, call 0844 8717 620 or visit ambassadortickets.com/bromley